Fedora 10

Fedora 10 is scheduled for release on the 25 of November.http://fedoraproject.org/After my sabbatical with Ubuntu, if feel that it is time to head back to RedHat.And as I am no longer using my Linux machine to run servers on vwmare, I can risk stability and go cutting edge!!

Chilly Distribution history;

Mandrake

RedHat

Solaris

SMEServer

CentOS (With SMEServer in VM)

Ubuntu

Fedora?

Of course not forgetting Xandros on my eeePC and the various `Live linux's`.

Re: Fedora 10

Well that did not last long!!!I have always found Fedora a bit `work in progress`.

What specifically didn't you like about it? I've just reformatted my PC and was considering putting Fedora 10 on the non-Windows partition instead of Ubuntu. I got wind though that it wouldn't get on with my Nvidia GFX drivers.

Re: Fedora 10

To be honest the few days that I was running it, I did not really give it a chance.I ended up in dependency hell trying to install the drivers for my printer (Serves me right for buying a Canon, and expecting it to run on Linux!!!).But then CentOS has the same issue with the Canon driver (cured with TurboPrint).The visual effects were a great gimmick at first, such as the cube workspace switcher, but soon become annoying. And the places for every thing in the menus had been moved around, causing a hunt for everything.I am very much a Luddite, in that I prefer old stable and working, so I returned to my old and trusted CentOS (RedHat Enterprise Linux).Why not give CentOS (5.2) a try, its basically RedHet EL without the price tag, so you get an enterprise and very well respected distribution. One snag it does have is that the standard repository's only contain a small selection of software. But you can always enable the rpmforge repo.

Re: Fedora 10

Well that did not last long!!!I have always found Fedora a bit `work in progress`.

What specifically didn't you like about it? I've just reformatted my PC and was considering putting Fedora 10 on the non-Windows partition instead of Ubuntu. I got wind though that it wouldn't get on with my Nvidia GFX drivers.

I have to agree that Fedora is not the most complete product out thare after install on a system that has an Nvidia card, this is mainly to do with its 'noble' intention og being a truly 'free' distro and any propriety drivers would taint that. So you have to add specific 'non-free' repositories to the package manager (I also do not presently like packagekit - it seems cumbersome), one the non free repos are added you can then install the appropriate graphical server and reboot to activate.It would take quite some work for me to get a fedora install to look/feel right for me.Should you need the non free repo, have a search ogn the fedora forum for a thread called somthing like 'nvidia F10 guide' or similarJase